Soloist Michael Emery performs as well as special guests of the CHIME program of the Empire State Youth Orchestra.

2pm Pre-Concert talk in the Fenimore Gallery.

Single tickets $15 & $22 at the Proctors Box Office.

Students 18 and under FREE when accompanied by a paid adult with ticket, provided by a grant from Price Chopper.

Concert features Tchaikowsky, Glazunov & Mendelssohn.

Brett Wery serves as the Dean of the School of Music at SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Prior to being appointed Dean, Mr. Wery served as professor of music at SUNY Schenectady for 25 years. While on the faculty, he received the SCCC Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the SUNY Chancellor’s award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He conducts the SCCC Wind Ensemble and for fourteen years as the Music Director of the Capital Region Wind Ensemble.

An active composer/arranger and member of ASCAP and SCI, Mr. Wery has had works performed on three different continents. Recently premiered works include Making the Darkness Conscious for Tenor Saxophone and Wind Ensemble, Sonata for Multiple Woodwinds, and his Sonata for Soprano Saxophone which was premiered the North American Saxophone Alliance annual conference. Mr. Wery is a freelance clarinetist/saxophonist and has performed with many area orchestras and bands including the Empire Jazz Orchestra, Dogs of Desire, Albany Symphony and the Schenectady Symphony.

Mr. Wery received his M.A. M.A. from the University of Denver and his Bachelor of Music degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied clarinet performance with Robert Listoken.

The first 150 ladies to arrive at Proctors for the Schenectady Symphony’s Mother’s Day Romance Concert at 3pm at Proctors, will all receive a beautiful fresh flower, and the opportunity to spoil that special Mother in your life with an after-concert meal at Katie O’Brynes where you will receive 10% off your tab and a […]

Conductor Ching-Chun Lai has held the post of Director of Orchestras and Associate Professor of Music at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam since 2011. During her tenure, the Crane Symphony Orchestra has performed in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. In […]

On the program…. Concerto for Oboe and Strings, D minor, op. 9, no. 2 Tomasco Albinoni Tomasco Albinoni was born in Venice in 1671. His birth year places him stylistically within the development of instrumental music : 13 years younger than Torelli, 7 years older than Vivaldi and 14 years older than Johann Sebastian Bach, […]

Glen Cortese has had hundreds of guest engagements as the conductor of dozens of orchestras, opera companies and summer festivals around the world. He has appeared with the New Jersey Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Belarus State Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, the National Romanian Radio Orchestra the Slovak Radio Orchestra and the Mexico […]

BLIZZARD BLOWOUT! SINGLE TICKETS $10. Monday, January 21 concert at 7pm at Proctors. This does not apply to buy an adult ticket for $15 or $22 and get 1 FREE student ticket. This is still available, but $10 ticket is a one time only special offer. Pre-concert talk at 6pm in the Fenimore Gallery at […]